Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot return to dead cultures, ancient languages, and the Legend of the Fisher King? Did not Yeats sustain himself on the Irish folklore? Did not Lawrence traipse across continents to Mexico, seeking the meaning of the Aztecs, the wisdom of primitive...
...begrudge my loneliness, not my persecution. But you have taken my lyre and broken it, and spit on the dead centuries, and rendered art into pornography. For what it availeth, I can do naught but curse...
...human retainers who customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave decorations, much in the manner of flower wreaths used today in Japan...
...order to the history of Palestine in the 3,000 years before Christ. Among his qualifications for archaeology: great physical durability and a command of some 25 languages, including enough man-in-the-oasis Arabic to keep his workers in line. Albright was in the U.S. when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, but photographs were airmailed to him, and he was the first scholar outside the Holy Land to verify their age and authenticity. His observation, bearing the Scrolls in mind: "Of all sciences, the two making the most progress today are nuclear physics and Palestinian archaeology...
...that he just did not care. He had had all the booze, all the drugs, all the women. And he could blow his horn so marvelously that, through him, jazz achieved a new dimension. But he wound up broke, sodden drunk, embittered; soon he would be dead. In The Horn, way-out Novelist John Clellon Holmes tries to suggest the forces that destroyed Edgar Pool. He does not succeed, but in failing he has still written the most interesting novel about the U.S. jazz world since Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn...